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TUESDAY
May 3, 2005
Vol. 112, No. 154 | Athens, Georgia
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Trustee
board to
discuss
group’s
future
Foundation still
holds $475 million
By SARA PAUFF
spauff@randb.com
The University Foundation
Board of Trustees will meet today
to continue discussing the course
of action for the fundraising organ
ization.
The Foundation met last week
to discuss the future of the organi
zation after the Board of Regents
instructed University President
Michael Adams to sever ties with
its fundraising arm.
The Foundation adjourned its
first official meeting since the split
last Wednesday without taking a
vote on how to proceed.
It still is unclear who will man
age the $475 million endowment —
the current foundation could turn
it over to a new cooperative organ
ization or continue to manage the
funds.
Trustee Dink NeSmith said at
the board’s closed meeting last
week he “sensed both feelings.” He
said the sooner the situation was
resolved, the better.
“Every church, business, univer
sity goes through turmoil. We just
have to get to the other side,” he
said.
The Foundation received an e-
mail April 22 from a University
alumnus and donor threatening to
sue the organization if it turned
over the endowment to a new foun
dation.
>► See FOUNDATION. Page 3
You don't have to go home...
>- Name: Nathan Amador,
Columbus
Major: History
Plans: Taking a year off, then
plans to apply for University's
School of Law
>- Name: Courtney Joiner,
Lyons
Majors: Sociology and Political
Science
Plans: Law school at Faulkner
University
>- Name: Juan Sierra,
Lawrenceville
Major: English
Plans: Graduate school at
Cornell University
commission
>- Name: Nina Hemphill,
Dover, Del.
Major: Magazines
Plans: Interviewing for intern
ships at various magazines
t ,
>- Name: David Hedrick, Rincon
Major: International Affairs
Plans: Currently looking in business,
interested in advertising
> Name: Matt Hastings,
Macon
Major: Geology
Plans: Graduate school at
University of Nevada, Reno
Major: Social Work
Plans: LeadAmerica this summer,
missionary work in Ghana, study
Spanish abroad, then plans to apply to
law school
>- Name: Matt
Deffenbaugh, Fayetteville
Major: Health and Physical
Education
Plans: Marine Corps officer
but you can't stay here
(unless you're going to graduate school)
By TODD SOUTH
tsouth@randb.com
Joel Lively is going to Atlanta to work for
Progressive Insurance.
Juan Sierra is heading off to Cornell and
graduate school in comparative literature.
Annie Sun has an interview with
First Investors, but might teach English in
Taiwan.
Matt Deffenbaugh and Mike Bengochea are
going into the Marines as second lieutenants.
University graduates’ plans are as varied as
the graduates themselves.
And while many have plans and jobs already
lined up, past years’ statistics from the Career
Center show about half of the students gradu
ating typically do not get jobs immediately
after commencement.
In a survey the center conducted six months
after last year’s graduation, 58 percent of
respondents said they were employed.
Sun, a senior from Sandy Springs, is consid
ering two options.
“I have an interview planned with First
Investors (Corporation) this summer, but
another option is to move to Taiwan and teach
English for about two years,” she said.
Deffenbaugh said he knew what he wanted
to do with the rest of his life.
“I definitely see myself as a career Marine —
my first (job) choice is infantry,” he said.
>- See GRADUATES, Page 7
Student input needed on board before Tate expansion begins
By GRAYSON IRVIN
girvin@randb.com
When students return in the fall,
the future site of the expanded
Tate Student Center should be the
same as it is now — a parking lot.
Construction on the project will
not begin until students, faculty
and staff on the Tate Student
Center Renovation and Expansion
Advisory Board decide what they
want to see in the facility.
Willie Banks, interim director of
Student Activities, said the most
important part of the planning
process is getting student input.
“The bottom line is that stu
dents say what they want,” Banks
said. “We have wanted student
opinions from the beginning of
this process.”
Banks, along with 14 students,
two faculty members, one other
staff member and an incoming
freshman will make up the advisory
board that recommends what goes
into the Tate Expansion.
He said his office is in the
process of selecting a student chair
and co-chair for the advisory
board.
The board will meet on Monday
at 6:30 p.m. and continue meeting
during the fall until they have
determined what they want in the
Tate Expansion.
Banks said students on the
board will take small trips to near
by universities to look at their stu
dent centers.
University architect Danny Sniff
said the earliest construction could
begin in spring of 2006.
► See TATE, Page 6
TREVOR CLARK | The Red & Black
a Senior finance majors and roommates Zach Bruce, left, and Jay
Bernstein, right, pose in their backyard overlooking Foley Field.
During the season they have an open-door policy for anyone who
likes to watch baseball. “We love it,” Bruce said. “Anybody can
come over as long as they are not messy.”
Summer construction
to update Athens by fall
By JOHN CALDWELL U
j caldwell@randb .com
Students’
house offers
views, brews
By DAVID PITTMAN
dpittman@randb.com
Living in “The Green House” that
sits atop Kudzu Hill and overlooks
Foley Field, Zach Bruce and Jay
Bernstein feel they have the best view
in Athens.
With alcohol being banned last sea
son from Kudzu Hill, the fan favorite
slope of land that rises behind the
right field wall, the Green House pro
vides the two seniors from Athens the
ultimate combination of a great van
tage point and off-campus liberties.
Bruce and Bernstein invite friends
over and, with drink in hand and the
game playing on the radio in the back
ground, watch home baseball games
from their back porch.
The crowds, which can number
between 30 and 50 the two say, are
close and wild enough to constantly
badger the opposing teams’ right
fielder.
Earlier this season, those at The
Green House had the goods on
Clemson right fielder Travis Storrer.
Bernstein went to high school with
Storrer’s roommate-to-be next year at
Clemson.
The Green House patrons taunted
Storrer by chanting his girlfriend’s
name most of the game.
The house had a bone to pick with
Storrer after a post season game
against the Tigers last year, where
Storrer threw a ball over the wall
signed “I own UGA,” Bruce said.
A few weeks earlier when the
Bulldogs played Elon, a Green House
stereo blared the Canadian national
anthem during the seventh inning
stretch for Elon right fielder Matt
Stocco, who hails from Guelph,
Ontario, Canada.
► See GREENHOUSE. Page 15
Students returning to Athens
in the fall can expect to find
upgraded sporting facilities and a
clear, repaved Lumpkin Street
among the summertime changes
to the look of campus.
University administrators gen
erally take advantage of the slow
summer months to renovate
buildings’ interiors and begin
large construction projects said
Paul Cassilly, director of design
and construction for the
University Architects for Facilities
Planning.
“Summer is a good time to start
because students are out of the
way,” Cassilly said. “We can make a
big mess and clean up by fall.”
Roadwork that has closed
lanes on Lumpkin Street since
last summer will be finished in
time for the fall semester said
David Clark, director of trans
portation and public works for
Athens-Clarke County.
“It was supposed to be com
pleted by July, and it’s right on
schedule,” he said.
“(Construction on
Lumpkin St.) was
supposed to be completed
by July, and it’s right on
schedule. ”
DAVID CLARK
Director, Transportation/Public works
The collaborative effort
between ACC and the University
will create bike lanes, reduce auto
traffic from four lanes to three and
provide stormwater relief to pre
vent flooding, Clark added.
The Athletic Association will be
active as well over the summer,
with several projects scheduled for
completion before the fall sports
seasons begin.
“There will be new scoreboards
in eveiy facility we have, except
the track,” said Charles
Whittemore, assistant athletic
director for facilities.
► See CONSTRUCTION, Page 7
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